REGIONAL NEWS
MEA PC market
suffers sharpest
ever decline
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) PC market suffered
a sharp year-on-year decline of 25.6% in Q2 2015,
marking it as steepest decline ever recorded in the
region for a single quarter.
The latest market insights from global technology
research and consulting firm International Data
Corporation (IDC) show that overall PC shipments
for the quarter fell to 3.3 million units. Desktops were
down 21.2% year on year to 1.4 million units, while the
notebook segment declined 28.6% to total 1.9 million
units.
“Two of the biggest declines were seen in Turkey
and the ‘Rest of the Middle East’ region (Iran, Iraq,
Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Palestine),” says Fouad
Charakla, research manager for personal computing,
systems, and infrastructure solutions at IDC Middle
East, Africa and Turkey.
The top three vendor positions remained unchanged
from the last few quarters, with each of the leading
vendors suffering significant year-on-year declines in
their shipments to the region. HP continued to lead in
terms of market share, but saw its shipments fall 26%
year-on-year.
Strong growth for GCC’s mobile devices
the latest insights announced by global
consulting services firm International Data
Corporation (IDC).
Comprising shipments of smartphones,
tablets, and portable PCs to Saudi Arabia,
the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait,
the market’s growth was spurred by lower
average selling prices (ASPs), increasing
penetration levels, and the continued efforts
of new vendors to make their way into the
region’s markets and claim a piece of the pie.
The GCC’s mobile connected devices market expanded
16.7% year on year in Q1 2015 and saw record
shipments of over 8.7 million units, according to
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The Saudi market accounted for over 50%
of the mobile connected devices shipped
across the GCC in Q1 2015, with the UAE
ranking second with approximately 26%
share of the market’s volume. Saudi Arabia’s dominance
can be attributed to its sheer size and the rapid rate at
which IT adoption is occurring across the kingdom.
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